Why I built Tarnua

Three tabs

I was writing a long piece of research and turning it into a draft. ChatGPT was open for shaping the outline, Claude for the writing, Gemini for the technical parts. Each one suited a different bit of the job, so I kept jumping between them, copying, pasting, explaining myself all over again. Three tabs. Three logins. Three subscriptions.

One evening I thought: why isn’t this all in one place?

The build I parked

My first attempt was nothing like it. I wanted to see how AI assistants describe a business, so I tried to build the report with no-code tools, and ended up with a dozen connected workflows, a form at the front and a pile of data sources behind it. It worked, slowly. Every small change cost me an evening, and every report meant waiting.

So I parked it. That taught me the most useful thing I know: if it takes a dozen moving parts to explain, it’s the wrong build.

Back to the reports

I still wanted those reports, so I rebuilt the whole thing: one place, nothing to wire together. It worked well enough that I kept using it, which told me the idea was right and the plumbing had been the problem.

So I built it properly. That is Tarnua Visibility. It asks ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity your prompts, shows every answer, scores whether you are named and cited, and lists the sites they cite. It reports what the assistants said, not a verdict on the business. There is a free check: three buyer prompts on two AI assistants.

The name

The name came last. I kept thinking about tools and ideas connecting, and the day getting easier because of it.

tar

Persianthe thread that runs through a weave, and the string of the lute it names

nua

Irishnew

That is the whole idea: connecting people to tools that make their day easier, and connecting people to each other.

If you’re starting something similar

Build the first version with two tools, not twelve. AI has made that possible.

Pouyesh Izady, founder of Tarnua (SYNECT LIMITED, Dublin).